Sentences with phrase «alec model bill»

Here's the ALEC model bill.

Titled, the «Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act,» H.B. 1551 is also essentially a copycat of Tennessee's version of the ALEC model bill — it failed to pass.

This bill mirrors the provisions of the ALEC model bill which call for teaching «a range of perspectives presented in a balanced manner,» teaching «different perspectives» to allow for students to «form their own opinions,» and creating an «atmosphere of respect for different opinions and open - mindedness to new ideas.»

This bill mirrors major provisions of the ALEC model bill that say teachers should «provide instruction in critical thinking so that students will be able to fairly and objectively evaluate scientific... controversies,» and mandates that «balanced and objective environmental education materials and programs will... be used.»

In Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website, she boasts that «Under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent.»

A Brookings Institution study looked at a sample of 132 ALEC model bills that were introduced during the 2012 legislative season.

Not exact matches

The bill is based on a model produced by the conservative, corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

Common Cause has requested that the IRS investigate ALEC's 501 (c)(3) status for participating in a significant amount of lobbying activity by promulgating corporate - sponsored model bills and providing resources to the legislators promoting those bills.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

Through the ALEC Task Force, K12 has actually had an equal vote with state legislators on so - called «model» bills to divert taxpayer funds away from traditional public schools toward the objectives of ALEC's private sector funders, to help their bottom - lines and / or legislative agenda.

«In 2004 when the «model» bill was drafted and approved, both K12 Inc. and Connections Academy were part of the «School Choice Subcommittee of ALEC's Education Task Force, according to an archived version of ALEC's website from February 2005.

ALEC convenes legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right - wing think tanks to vote as equals, behind closed doors, on «model bills» that benefit ALEC's corporate members, industry funders, and right - wing allies.

The bill was based on an ALEC «model bill,» and the lead sponsor was ALEC member and former State Senator Debbie Lesko.

ALEC, is of course the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate bill mill providing a library of «model» legislation to right - wing state lawmakers across the land.

For example, Speaker Jones sponsored «parent trigger» legislation in both 2011 and 2012, bills that reflected the ALEC model «Parent Trigger Act.»

Despite widespread public opposition to the corporate - driven education privatization agenda, at least 172 measures reflecting American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bills were introduced in 42 states in 2015, according to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of ALECexposed.org and PRWatch.org.

ALEC has issued «model legislation» or resolutions denying climate change, promoting climate change denial in schools, and supporting offshore drilling, among other bills.

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills... Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations.

The group is influential — Brookings reported in 2013 that the rate of adoption for ALEC model legislation is «strikingly high» compared to other bills.

Explaining the nature and origins of the project, CMD wrote,» [CMD] unveiled a trove of over 800 «model» bills and resolutions secretly voted on by corporations and politicians through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

The following is taken from ALEC's model bill for «Energy Principles,» introduced January 1, 2002 and last amended January 12, 2017.

Some of the wage - crushing «model bills» pushed through ALEC include:

CMD reports that the model bill, called «Restrictions on Participation in Low - Carbon Fuel Standards Programs,» was sponsored at a November, 2012 ALEC conference in Washington by Steve Higley, a lobbyist from the U.S. - based industry group American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM).

To ensure that the energy market remains dominated by its fossil fuel company funders, ALEC promotes an array of «model» bills that undermine efforts to protect the environment.

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills.

The Center for Media and Democracy's (CMD) PR Watch reports that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adopted a «model» bill that would fight against regional low - carbon fuel standards (LCFS) in the states.

[49][50][51] Although it claims that it has not lobbied for bills that extend or increase sentences for prisoners, for many years GEO Group participated in the task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that pushed bills that lengthened time in prison, such as so - called «truth - in - sentencing» and «three strikes» legislation, as models for states to adopt across the nation.

ALEC's corresponding model bill is called «Compact for America: Balanced Budget Amendment.»

ALEC has adopted this idea as a model bill called the «Application for a Convention of the States Under Article V of the Constitution of the United States.»

Exxon has paid substantial sums to serve in a leadership capacity at ALEC, both on the group's corporate board and on energy - related issue task forces, where corporations introduce «model» legislation and hold de facto veto power over what bills are subsequently promoted by ALEC.

This week in Denver, July 19 - 21, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will welcome Republican state legislators and its corporate funders, including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA, to vote on corporate legislative priorities and create cookie cutter «model» bills in task force meetings that are still closed to the press.

As billionaires, like Richard Mercer and Charles and David Koch, come under fire for heavily influencing campaigns and elections with undisclosed dark money, ALEC has a new «Center to Protect Free Speech» and a model bill that would allow dark money donors to keep their funders a secret.

In 2012, CMD exposed that «Stand Your Ground» was developed by the NRA in Florida and taken to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as a «model» bill.

ALEC is a lobbyists» policy factory, where corporations vote as equals on «model bills» with state legislators.

The new bill, which has passed through the MEC committee and is headed for ratification in the State House of North Carolina, included a requirement to use the FracFocus website, following the ALEC fracking model legislation passed in multiple states.

These are the new model bills ALEC and its energy, chemical and agricultural interests are finalizing this week.

The Colorado bill was based on a model bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate - funded group dedicated to passing legislation approved by ALEC's corporate funders, including fracking companies like Chesapeake Energy.

ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force is drafting new model bills on behalf of its members like Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and Peabody.

[34] The Nation reports that the Kochs have likely given over $ 1 million to ALEC over the years, and many of ALEC's model bills reflect the policies the Kochs have been advocating for decades.

ALEC's new model bill calls for updates to net metering policies to create a fixed grid charge designed to «recover grid costs from [Distributed Generation] systems.»

APS appears to be part of a larger national campaign from EEI being implemented, in part, through ALEC's new net metering model language bill that favors the utility industry over distributed solar energy.

See the video below on Elsner's exchange with Rick Tempchin, confirming that EEI was working with APS in Arizona and worked with ALEC on the new model bill.

ALEC's new model bill targeting net metering (and distributed energy) may also be the first assault of EEI's long - term strategy to address business competition from distributed energy generation like solar.

ALEC has produced a number of model bills aimed at promoting dirty energy and preventing government at the local, state, and federal levels from addressing climate change.

Ndege explained how ALEC is essentially a corporate bill mill where corporations and special interests help craft model legislation.

It's earned such a description because it passes «model bills» written by corporate lobbyists and to boot, the lobbyists typically do so behind closed doors at ALEC's annual meetings.

ALEC facilitated the creation of several model bills intended to trip up the booming clean energy industry.

(ALEC) model bills in state capitals by issuing reports and testifying in favor of the legislation; the bills often would roll back environmental protections or weaken renewable energy policies.

Senators Niehaus and Balderson are members of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force, which approved the fracking «disclosure» bill internally sponsored by ExxonMobil, modeled after a Texas bill (see New York Times and ProPublica).